Method for Ascertaining a Piece of Topological Information of an Intersection

1. A method for ascertaining a piece of topological information of an intersection, the method comprising: locating a vehicle with lane accuracy when negotiating the intersection; ascertaining data by the vehicle when negotiating the intersection; transmitting the data to a processing unit; and ascertaining a connectivity of lane-roadway combinations of the intersection from the data with the processing unit; wherein lane change matrices are created from the data, which indicate from which lane-road combination the vehicle enters another lane-road combination, the lane change matrices being provided to a neural network as input data.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein locating the vehicle with lane accuracy is carried out using WGS85 coordinates.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein locating the vehicle with lane accuracy is carried out using street names.

4. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein data of a defined high number of trips of the vehicles are used for ascertaining the connectivity.

5. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein a defined filtering of unlikely connectivity data is carried out during the ascertainment of the connectivity.

6. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the transmission of the data to the processing unit is carried out in real time.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein a neural network provides the data regarding connectivity in the form of a number or in the form of an adjacency matrix.

8. A system for ascertaining a piece of topological information of an intersection, comprising: a locating unit configured to locate a vehicle with lane accuracy when negotiating the intersection; an ascertainment unit configured to ascertain data by the vehicle when negotiating the intersection; a transmission unit configured to transmit the data to a processing unit, the processing unit being configured to ascertain a connectivity of the lanes of the intersection from the data; wherein lane change matrices are created from the data, which indicate from which lane-road combination the vehicle enters another lane-road combination, the lane change matrices being provided to a neural network as input data.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable data carrier on which is stored a computer program, which is executable by a processor, comprising: a program code arrangement having including program code for ascertaining a piece of topological information of an intersection, by performing the following: locating a vehicle with lane accuracy when negotiating the intersection; ascertaining data by the vehicle when negotiating the intersection; transmitting the data to a processing unit; and ascertaining a connectivity of lane-roadway combinations of the intersection from the data with the processing unit; wherein lane change matrices are created from the data, which indicate from which lane-road combination the vehicle enters another lane-road combination, the lane change matrices being provided to a neural network as input data.